Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

Reflecting on Memorial Day’s origins in the Civil War, this article contrasts past and present national divisions, critiques ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was ... noted that the Confederate soldiers present were licking their lips hopefully, with “a keen relish for a cup of Yankee coffee.” ...

The documentary filmmaker called the American Revolution the world’s greatest historical event “since the birth of Christ.” ...

By now, the Russian euphoria that greeted improved relations with Washington this spring has diminished, but many Russian elites and ordinary citizens continue to pin their hopes on the Trump ...

Columnist John Breunig eulogizes his father. 'I don’t think I ever fully saw him as a soldier until the funeral ended Friday' ...

ON MAY 1, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation awarded and signed the $273.84 million contract with Skanska USA ...

Retired Air Force Gen. Dan Leaf and longtime activist Christine Ahn will be the featured speakers Thursday for a prestigious lecture series at England’s University of Oxford.

In Calais, the loss of Fred and Harry Sherman was keenly felt during World War I, while Eastport's Ralph Ray was deeply mourned when he failed to come back from the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916 ...

"Welcome to Virginia 1862," read the sign at the gates of Norskedalen, where pioneer homesteads evoke the Civil War era ... Hundreds of soldiers clash on 280 acres of woods and fields, along ...